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Distributor:Seward Family Digital Archive

Institution:University of Rochester

Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections

Date:1837-06-24

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Birth: 1803-11-01
Death: 1875-10-03

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has stayed and talked so long
that I am afraid I cannot finish my letter until
tomorrow — As is always the case when we are without
help we have had abundance of company this week —
Monday afternoon Weed

was here to tea also — he looks so much like Willis
that I met him very cordially at the door and
did not discover my mistake until he said I
had mistaken him for his brother — however I could
perceive a great difference on closer examination — he
is agreeable his manners are much like his brothers —
on his way to Niagara

on the subject of a romance
which is to appear in the July number of the Knickerbocker
he is suffering from the effect of paralysis of which he
speaks thus — "Might I request to know the name ^what^ of your
friend did with his paralysis! I have now been since Sep
never off my seat, except when lifted like a log, and
really as a sick and dying boy said to his father —
"it is growing dark, I wish lights were come". The world to me
is growing less every hour" — — I shall keep these letters
carefully especially for your perusal — Clark was here
the whole afternoon — Henry read to him his address which
he is to deliver next Monday in Troy

before the Young
Mens association — Clark immediately desired to have
it for the Knickerbocker! Henry has been hurried to
death ever since he came home — I do think he is
the most indefatigable mortal I ever saw — he was com-
pletely exhausted with close application the last
day he was at home — left yesterday afternoon accom-
panied by Mrs Miller

— Caroline had
opened the letter at the Office and came immediately here
to know if we had ever any knowledge of the girl in
question — we could tell her nothing except that she
was living in the family of Mr Farnsworth

but
dwelt constantly on her own love for Henry and his ill
requital of her affection — the letter was addressed to
her father cold and unsatisfactory enough — he commenced with
saying he was married the evening before to Miss Emmeline
Augusta Prime niece of Mr Prime of N.Y. of the firm of
Prime Ward and King — he had become attached to the young lady
soon after their acquaintance commenced — soon discovered the attachment
to be mutual — had offered himself — was accepted — at the same
time informed that her guardian Mr Farnsworth would not consent
to their union as he had another person in view as ^for^ the husband of
his ward — Mr Farnsworth was about to remove his family to Chicago

and the evening previous to this departure as Henry says after mature
deliberation the young people concluded to be married by a justice
of the peace with whom Henry is boarding — this we have from Jennings

would forgive him & promised himself the pleasure
of presenting his wife to them this Summer — Miss Prime is an orphan
without nearer relatives than this uncle — I think she is the
same girl who read the composition on the death of her mother

Unknown

at the time of the examination — Jennings writes that they are now
boarding at the house Henry was at before — Caroline was in such
a state that I went home with her — there I witnessed another burst
of uncontrouled passion from Mrs Smith who behaved just as you
would suppose Mrs Smith would — Smith who is still confined to his
bed behaved very rationally though he was most affected — I
remained an hour seeing no prospect of any cessation of the ravings
I came home — Henry went up in the evening, found them all
much more composed — he mentioned that Jennings had written

that Miss Prime had about 2000$ — "is that all said Mrs S—"
dont mention any of these things — I felt very unwilling to
witness all that I did and feel that I ought not to make itL publick — Tell Frances